Word: studioful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rooms unfolded triumphantly around the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale; just opened was his first sell-out show in Los Angeles; and a new series of freeway paintings was in the works, suggesting infinite possible directions for his art. Then came Arkley's drug overdose in his Melbourne studio. And in the intervening years, the emotions left by his tragic death - as well as the usual art-market maneuvering - colored the public perception of him. Curator Smith believes there is a "a respectful distance now," and what his exhibition and John Gregory's accompanying book offer is a perfectly...
...senior lecturer in art and design at Monash University, Gregory also happens to be the brother-in-law of Arkley's widow, Alison Burton, and Carnival in Suburbia: The Art of Howard Arkley (Cambridge University Press; 214 pages) benefits from intimate access to the artist's studio archive. Here, an entry gleaned from one of his student notebooks - "I offer the following as an example of my state of mind... hint: there could be something that at first seems false. but things are never what they seem" - could be a useful guide for visitors to the retrospective, which opens this...
...Rebecca is one of a number of Criterion titles that the company no longer produces, frequently because their licensing agreement with the studio has expired. But it can still be tracked down from on-line retailers, and of course on eBay, where there's a lively trade in discontinued Criterion titles like Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo. And anyway, to the real collector, scarcity is catnip...
...actually broke down at rehearsal. I had to cram studying, but I was not able to study as much as I had wanted,” Moore says. “We were working six straight hours with one five-minute break. I think I was in the studio over 23 hours in a matter of three days...
...However, studio setbacks are not nearly enough to squelch Moore’s overall enthusiasm about the show. She insists that her involvement with “American Grace” has been the right move. As to why the dance is so important to her, Moore can’t exactly explain...